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Highway checkpoint asks drivers for blood, saliva
WorldNetDaily ^ | 9-20-2007 | Unknown

Posted on 09/21/2007 11:30:40 AM PDT by jmc813

Motorists in Colorado are expressing outrage over a weekend stunt in Gilpin County, about an hour's drive west of Denver, where highway checkpoints were set up so a private organization could ask for samples of blood and saliva.

"I don't think they're authorized to do what they're doing, and I view it as a gross violation of law-enforcement protocol," Roberto Sequeira, 51, told reporters for the Denver Post.

He said he and his wife were "detained" for about 15 minutes even after they protested they wanted to get home because of a sleepy child in their car.

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Sheriff's officials were apologizing after they helped set up and run five separate checkpoints over the weekend.

They said workers for the Institute for Research and Evaluation were overly persistent in their demands of innocent travelers.

"It was like a telemarketer that you couldn't hang up on," Undersheriff John Bayne told the newspaper.

Sgt. Bob Enney said the deputies' assistance to the organization involved stopping motorists at the sites along Colorado Highway 119 for "surveys" on any drug or alcohol use. Surveyors also requested that motorists submit to breath, blood and saliva tests.

Enney said several hundred motorists were tested, and some later complained.

Sequeira said he repeatedly asked if the questioners were law enforcement officials and said he was not interested in participating in the study, but still was not given clearance to leave.

He told the newspaper that he and his family were approached by two researchers, and even after his repeated refusals, officials offered his wife, who was driving, $100 to get the couple to take part in a breath test.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: banglist; bodilyfluids; checkpoints; dna; donutwatch; highwayrobbery; leo; nannystate; outsourcedleos; police; policepower; policestate; privacy; unreasonablesearch; wod; wodlist
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1 posted on 09/21/2007 11:30:42 AM PDT by jmc813
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To: traviskicks

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2 posted on 09/21/2007 11:31:00 AM PDT by jmc813 (I want candy.)
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To: jmc813; Abram; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allerious; Allosaurs_r_us; ...
Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.
3 posted on 09/21/2007 11:34:11 AM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: jmc813
Sheriff's officials were apologizing after they helped set up and run five separate checkpoints over the weekend.

They said workers for the Institute for Research and Evaluation were overly persistent in their demands of innocent travelers.

Oh, how passages like that make me wish I'd gone to law school!

There's a lot of settlement money to be made on this one!

4 posted on 09/21/2007 11:34:27 AM PDT by JennysCool (Don't taze me, Bro!)
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To: jmc813

wow, sounds like a whole laundry list of laws broken.


5 posted on 09/21/2007 11:34:31 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (stop repeat offenders- don't re-elect them!)
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To: jmc813
could ask for samples of blood and saliva

Sure, just take my underwear.

6 posted on 09/21/2007 11:35:38 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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>> highway checkpoints were set up so a private organization could ask for samples of blood and saliva.

Lessee... False arrest, unlawful search and seizure, assault under color of authority.... And yet, there’s no mention in the article of the employees of this private organization and the participating deputies being arrested. How odd....


7 posted on 09/21/2007 11:39:48 AM PDT by vikingd00d
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To: Puppage
Sure, just take my underwear.

You have blood and saliva in your underwear?

8 posted on 09/21/2007 11:42:26 AM PDT by jmc813 (I want candy.)
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To: Puppage
Sure, just take my underwear.

That's OK. They only need samples from one person.

9 posted on 09/21/2007 11:42:36 AM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: jmc813

Around these parts the volunteer fire depts will descend on an intersection and beg for money, it kind of pisses me off, at least have a car wash or something.


10 posted on 09/21/2007 11:42:58 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: jmc813

The researchers need to do own their work and not get the cops to do it for them.


11 posted on 09/21/2007 11:43:33 AM PDT by JamesP81
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To: Puppage

or bite the inside of your cheek and spit on them....


12 posted on 09/21/2007 11:43:46 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
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To: jmc813
Stepping over the line.

It's way past time to start shooting back.

13 posted on 09/21/2007 11:44:07 AM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: vikingd00d
And yet, there’s no mention in the article of the employees of this private organization and the participating deputies being arrested. How odd....

Remember: laws only apply to the little people.
14 posted on 09/21/2007 11:44:24 AM PDT by JamesP81
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To: jmc813

Local law enforcement stopping motorists to be dragooned into participating in a PRIVATE “study?” Holy crap, I hope that county’s got deep pockets, because they just bought themselves a world of legal doodoo.

}:-)4


15 posted on 09/21/2007 11:45:17 AM PDT by Moose4 (I will never forget. I will never forgive.)
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To: vikingd00d

Maybe kidnapping as well. Isn’t that what they are charging OJ for telling those guys they couldn’t leave the room?


16 posted on 09/21/2007 11:47:25 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: jmc813

I hope somebody’s hide gets nailed to the wall for this!


17 posted on 09/21/2007 11:47:28 AM PDT by jack_napier
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To: absolootezer0
"wow, sounds like a whole laundry list of laws broken."

Law enforcement can't break the law, silly, they are the law!

Inclusion of a < /sarcasm> tag was deemed unnecessary for this post.
18 posted on 09/21/2007 11:47:43 AM PDT by LIConFem (Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
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To: jmc813

LOL! My first thought also.


19 posted on 09/21/2007 11:48:41 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0 (Reunite Gondwanaland!)
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To: jmc813

The abuse of power that was feared from the Patriot Act is actually alive and well in Podunk County, Colorado.


20 posted on 09/21/2007 11:49:35 AM PDT by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "P" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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